Ok so i've been banking my head on the wall for a good week now trying to solve this problem, searched every forum and tutorial, all the youtube videos the internet has to offer it seems. its possible i have missed the information but i dunno. ok so heres the problem:
I have a Motion Computing M1400 which I decided to install UBUNTU on and did so with a roundabout method as the BIOS does not support USB boot. it does support cd and floppy boots but has neither a floppy drive nor a cd drive, it does however have two usb drives (one of which is used for the keyboard). Ok so it was over a year ago when i installed Ubuntu, so the version is 11.10? I dont know for certain. and if memory serves me right i believe i used plop (or a program similar to) in order to boot to my usb to install it. It has not worked since. It appeared to have installed OK but now it does not want to boot and i find myself in a pickle. Here is what it does:
Turn on: loads bios fine, get to grub2 menu fine,
'ubuntu'
black screen with white flashing underscore in top left corner. it hangs there forever, will not change
'advanced options for Ubuntu'
'ubuntu, with linux 3.5.0-17-generic'
Loading Linux 3.5.0-17-generic ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
then it clears and all i see is that demented flashing underscore in the top left corner.
'ubuntu, with linux 3.5.0-17-generic (recovery mode)'
Loading Linux 3.5.0-17-generic ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
Lots of really fast text eventually hanging with this being the last line:
[ 0.237707] pci 0000:00:1e.0: > bridge window [mem 0x20000000-0x25ffffff pref]
then i get that sinister flashing underscore.
ok so ive tried everything ive found suggesting on booting to the ubuntu command line in hope that i could figure something out from there but that was in vain.
from there i have tried to find a way to boot a live usb drive from the grub2 command line to no avail seeing as how i do not have access to the operating system on the computer.
i then searched far and wide for some sort of way to boot a usb drive without access to the operating system and without usb bios support and return with nothing.
I'd like to figure this thing out since its a cool little thing when it works but right now im at a loss for what to do! Please help me!!
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